Example sentences of "[prep] a very few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 2 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 3 | In a very few appearances on the mini tour , he accrued sufficient money to gain his card for the 1991 Volvo Tour . |
| 4 | The other evening , with the help of a lot of film , he put the spotlight on a very few areas of endeavour where he thought we might be actually going right . |
| 5 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 6 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |